Expand your horizons – learn a world language with Mizzou Academy!
Welcome! We are so happy you have decided to embark on or continue your world language learning journey with Mizzou Academy. There are over 7,000 languages spoken globally. This means you have almost endless potential to learn new languages and make new connections. We’ve found the more you learn about languages, culture, and the world, the distance between people and place becomes smaller.
Learning another language is far more than gaining a few new phrases. A world language learner is someone who is studying a language beyond their home language. Truly studying language means learning about both communication and culture. As you learn new languages, you will be able to communicate with more people, build bridges, understand nuance in culture and literature, and be a more mobile global citizen.
Global citizenship is the idea that all human beings are interconnected as members of a world community who share space, experience, and common bonds. At Mizzou Academy, we have students from over 40 different countries of origin. We commend you on your interest in world languages, and we would be thrilled to count you among our global learning community.

Language Options
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Dutch
- Filipino
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Persian (Farsi)
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
Our World Language courses begin the first of each month.
Prerequisites: Our World Language courses must be taken in sequential order. For example, you must take Spanish 1A before proceeding to Spanish 1B. If you are unsure of which level to enroll in, please work with our counselor to review transfer credits and other factors that might influence which course you take.
View CoursesOptions with Live Tutoring Sessions
- Arabic
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- English (American)
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Spanish (Latin America)
Partnership with Rosetta Stone Education
Through an exciting partnership with Rosetta Stone Education, we are able to offer 21 World Languages with the following features:
- Immersive environment: Students will spend all their time on the course immersed in the target language, so they will get used to interacting within the focus language and using it. Students acquire the structures by modeling real communicative situations.
- Self-paced courses: Mizzou Academy suggests a weekly course load to finish in 20 weeks, but students can tweak this schedule to fit their own pace and schedule and finish earlier.
- Scaffolding: Our content is structured in a way that what students learn, prepares them for the next lesson. Progress is built on solid ground.
- Practice: Rosetta Stone’s speech recognition tool enables students to practice their pronunciation in a stress-free context. In some of our courses, students also have the opportunity to interact with native speaking tutors.
- Mobile-friendly: Students can either work on a laptop or desktop, and also through a mobile app.
- Trusted approach: Mizzou Academy and Rosetta Stone Education have been used by thousands of learners around the world as a trusted resource to expand and deepen language learning.
Latin Studies
In addition to the World Languages options above, we also offer four levels of Latin. These courses were developed in-house by our talented faculty.
Studying Latin is a meaningful scholarly pursuit. Below are four highlights among many more to study Latin.
- Latin is a rich, layered language that can be a joy to study.
- Latin helps improve English vocabulary and comprehension, as close to 2/3 of English words are derived from Latin.
- Scholars in medicine, law, and the sciences have all cited benefits to studying Latin.
- Latin undergirds the Romance languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, etc.
World Languages Course Options
Legend
: AP | : NCAA ApprovedWorld Languages
American English 1A
Prerequisites: None
American English 1B
Prerequisites: None
American English 2A
Prerequisites: None
American English 2B
Prerequisites: None
American English 3A
Prerequisites: None
American English 3B
Prerequisites: None
American English 4A
Prerequisites: None
American English 4B
Prerequisites: None
Arabic 1A
Prerequisites: None
Arabic 1B
Prerequisites: None
Arabic 2A
Prerequisites: None
Arabic 2B
Prerequisites: None
Dutch 1A
Prerequisites: None
Dutch 1B
Prerequisites: None
Dutch 2A
Prerequisites: None
Dutch 2B
Prerequisites: None
Filipino 1A
Prerequisites: None
Filipino 1B
Prerequisites: None
Filipino 2A
Prerequisites: None
Filipino 2B
Prerequisites: None
French 1A
Prerequisites: None
French 1B
Prerequisites: None
French 2A
Prerequisites: None
French 2B
Prerequisites: None
French 3A
Prerequisites: None
French 3B
Prerequisites: None
French 4A
Prerequisites: None
French 4B
Prerequisites: None
German 1A
Prerequisites: None
German 1B
Prerequisites: None
German 2A
Prerequisites: None
German 2B
Prerequisites: None
German 3A
Prerequisites: None
German 3B
Prerequisites: None
German 4A
Prerequisites: None
German 4B
Prerequisites: None
Greek 1A
Prerequisites: None
Greek 1B
Prerequisites: None
Greek 2A
Prerequisites: None
Greek 2B
Prerequisites: None
Hebrew 1A
Prerequisites: None
Hebrew 1B
Prerequisites: None
Hebrew 2A
Prerequisites: None
Hebrew 2B
Prerequisites: None
Hindi 1A
Prerequisites: None
Hindi 1B
Prerequisites: None
Hindi 2A
Prerequisites: None
Hindi 2B
Prerequisites: None
Irish 1A
Prerequisites: None
Irish 1B
Prerequisites: None
Irish 2A
Prerequisites: None
Irish 2B
Prerequisites: None
Italian 1A
Prerequisites: None
Italian 1B
Prerequisites: None
Italian 2A
Prerequisites: None
Italian 2B
Prerequisites: None
Italian 3A
Prerequisites: None
Italian 3B
Prerequisites: None
Italian 4A
Prerequisites: None
Italian 4B
Prerequisites: None
Japanese 1A
Prerequisites: None
Japanese 1B
Prerequisites: None
Japanese 2A
Prerequisites: None
Japanese 2B
Prerequisites: None
Korean 1A
Prerequisites: None
Korean 1B
Prerequisites: None
Korean 2A
Prerequisites: None
Korean 2B
Prerequisites: None
Latin 1A
This course introduces students to the basics of Latin vocabulary and grammar and discusses aspects of the history and culture of ancient Romans. It is designed to help students understand English better and make it easier for them to learn other foreign languages that are descended from Latin.
Gifted: This course is academically challenging. Any student who has an interest in the subject and has met the prerequisites (if any) may enroll.
Objectives:
Note: Not all of these objectives will occur in every lesson, but they are the basis for our study.
At the end of each of the lesson, students should be able to:
Lesson 1
1.1 pronounce all Latin consonants, vowels, and diphthongs;
1.2 translate simple Latin sentences;
1.3 translate and give answers to simple questions, orally, in Latin;
1.4 understand the interchangeable nature of word order in a Latin sentence;
1.5 understand the concept of inflections; and
1.6 answer questions about Horace and Rome during his lifetime.
Lesson 2
2.1 distinguish between nouns of the first and second declensions;
2.2 explain how gender is expressed in Latin;
2.3 describe how Latin verbs fall into different conjugations;
2.4 explain why Latin adjectives agree with the nouns they describe in case, gender, and number; and
2.5 briefly discuss facts in Roman history.
Lesson 3
3.1 distinguish among, translate, and use Latin verb endings which show what ‘person’ the subject is;
3.2 identify and translate forms of the irregular verb meaning to be: sum;
3.3 identify the ‘infinitive’ form of a Latin verb and be able to translate it correctly;
3.4 identify the few, but frequently used, -io verbs in Latin;
3.5 recognize and translate nouns in the vocative case;
3.6 identify and translate Latin interrogative words and interrogative particles; and
3.7 demonstrate knowledge of Roman culture by answering simple questions.
Lesson 4
4.1 identify and translate nouns of the third declension;
4.2 identify and translate a Latin verb in the imperative form;
4.3 identify and translate third declension adjectives;
4.4 identify and translate forms of the Latin verb possum (to be able);
4.5 understand how Latin verbs can be compounded to create a verb with a different emphasis or meaning; and
4.6 answer questions about the life of the poet Homer.
Prerequisites: None
Latin 1B
Prerequisites: None
Latin 2A
Prerequisites: None
Latin 2B
Prerequisites: None
Mandarin Chinese 1A
Prerequisites: None
Mandarin Chinese 1B
Prerequisites: None
Mandarin Chinese 2A
Prerequisites: None
Mandarin Chinese 2B
Prerequisites: None
Mandarin Chinese 3A
Prerequisites: None
Mandarin Chinese 3B
Prerequisites: None
Mandarin Chinese 4A
Prerequisites: None
Mandarin Chinese 4B
Prerequisites: None
Persian 1A
Prerequisites: None
Persian 1B
Prerequisites: None
Persian 2A
Prerequisites: None
Persian 2B
Prerequisites: None
Polish 1A
Prerequisites: None
Polish 1B
Prerequisites: None
Polish 2A
Prerequisites: None
Polish 2B
Prerequisites: None
Portuguese 1A
Prerequisites: None
Portuguese 1B
Prerequisites: None
Portuguese 2A
Prerequisites: None
Portuguese 2B
Prerequisites: None
Russian 1A
Prerequisites: None
Russian 1B
Prerequisites: None
Russian 2A
Prerequisites: None
Russian 2B
Prerequisites: None
Russian 3A
Prerequisites: None
Russian 3B
Prerequisites: None
Russian 4A
Prerequisites: None
Russian 4B
Prerequisites: None
Spanish 1A
Prerequisites: None
Spanish 1B
Prerequisites: None
Spanish 2A
Prerequisites: None
Spanish 2B
Prerequisites: None
Spanish 3A
Prerequisites: None
Spanish 3B
Prerequisites: None
Spanish 4A
Prerequisites: None
Spanish 4B
Prerequisites: None
Swedish 1A
Prerequisites: None
Swedish 1B
Prerequisites: None
Swedish 2A
Prerequisites: None
Swedish 2B
Prerequisites: None
Turkish 1A
Prerequisites: None
Turkish 1B
Prerequisites: None
Turkish 2A
Prerequisites: None
Turkish 2B
Prerequisites: None
Vietnamese 1A
Prerequisites: None
Vietnamese 1B
Prerequisites: None
Vietnamese 2A
Prerequisites: None
Vietnamese 2B
Prerequisites: None